Or they pretend that that one really hot day that made the newspaper in 1972 is perfectly representative for the other 364 days, because it's always warm in summer.

[–] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but we need to get them to acknowledge that okay, it was 102° F one day in 1972. Yesterday and today were the first days in 2 weeks or more where the high was less than 100° F where I live.

It was not this hot for weeks in 1972.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

hell, you don't even have to go back to 1972. I remember in my area growing up (90's), breaking 100 was something that would maybe happen one or two days out of a whole summer, and it was a whole thing - treated in the same way you might treat a really bad storm in winter.

This summer half of every week has been above 100 since July - our "breaks" from the heat are like mid-90's.

I wonder how bad it's going to have to get before everyone who isn't literally mentally ill will have to admit that this isn't normal